Giant Mechanical Blue Crab

Does anyone remember the giant blue crab at the Maryland Science Center? Does it still move?

Gary Litherland, left, and William Whiteside prepare to left the 5-foot automated crab model into a cave in the Maryland Academy of Sciences (Maryland Science Center Museum) exhibit. Baltimore Sun Staff photo by Carl D. Harris, 6/7/1976

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